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2022 ACDA Midwestern Region Conference

Interest Sessions

Recruitment Techniques to community and academic settings to ventory (IDI) Assessment tool. At-
reinvent their mission, membership, tendees will receive a blueprint for
Rebuild Your Music Program
and audience experience without creating intercultural programming
changing their budget, personnel, that is moldable to diff erent mis-
The COVID-19 pandemic has and fundamental choral structure. sions, visions, age groups, budget siz-
presented unprecedented challeng- Conductors and managers of estab- es, and timelines.
es to educational systems across the lished independent choruses are the
nation, and music has suff ered more primary audience for this session; Jacob Stensberg cur-
than most. Recruiting students in however, the process is eff ective for rently works with the
order to rebuild our programs is at any chorus seeking to be outreach choirs at Purdue Uni-
the forefront of many of our minds. and relevancy-driven. Time for versity in West Lafay-
In this presentation, participants will workshopping your ideas and chal- ette, Indiana. He di-
explore several avenues of recruit- lenges will be included. rects, accompanies, composes, and
ment, identify best practices in social arranges for eight of the groups at
media and marketing, and discuss Jennifer Rodgers is the Purdue while remaining active as a
how to capture the attention and assistant director of performer and clinician throughout
interest of students. Participants will choral activities and an the state. Stensberg’s choral passions
also examine methods to establish assistant professor of include sacred Renaissance polyph-
and develop the active and positive teaching in voice and ony, music written yesterday, and
support of administrators. choral at Iowa State University. Her music passed down in the oral tra-
career as a conductor, teacher, and dition. Stensberg received a BME
Dean Jilek is director performer reflects her passion for us- from Carroll University in Wauke-

of choral activities ing music to start conversations and sha, WI, and an MM from Butler
at the University of address social issues. Prior to her University in Indianapolis, IN.
North Dakota, where work in academia, Rodgers founded
he conducts the Con- a theater company uniting art, edu-
cert Choir, Enöxa, the Varsity Bards, cation, and community service.
and Goliards, and teaches courses in So Much to Do; So Little Time:
choral conducting, choral literature, Managing Cognitive Load in the
and vocal methods. He also serves Singing is Essential: Resilient Choral Rehearsal Through
as the artistic director of the Grand
Forks Chorale and Master Chorale. Intercultural Pedagogies Movement and Gesture
Jilek earned his DMA from the Uni-
versity of North Texas and his MM This session explores intercultur- This presentation focuses on
from North Dakota State University. al pedagogies for authentic musical the challenges of cognitive load in
experiences and the development of the choral classroom and methods
intercultural knowledge and compe- for managing cognitive overload
tency. The research focuses on the throughout the ensemble rehearsal.
A Rubric for student experience, growth in the six How often do students create con-
Choral Relevance areas of intercultural competency as cept maps or explore their own ges-
laid out by the Association of Amer- tures? Generative studies show that
In this interactive session, Jennifer ican Colleges and Universities, and incorporating students’ experiences
Rodgers will share her process that orientation scores as determined by and perspectives into the learning
has led her traditional choruses in the Intercultural Development In- process leads to more interaction

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